I found 2.7 had a memory leak(s). If you wish to run as web brick I'd suggest restarting on a daily basis.
I haven't ran 3.x as web brick so I'm unsure if it's still a problem, running puppet master with apache phusion has solved a lot of those problems for me. On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 9:52:24 PM UTC+10, setests setests wrote: > > Hi > > I am running Puppet version 2.7.18-5 with around ~ 100 nodes syncing with > the server with the defaults of half an hour. Is it normal for the > puppetmaster service to take around ~ *3GB* of RAM. > > # cat /etc/debian_version > 7.1 > # dpkg --list | grep -i puppet > ii puppet-common 2.7.18-5 all > Centralized configuration management > ii puppetmaster 2.7.18-5 all > Centralized configuration management - master startup and compatibility > scripts > ii puppetmaster-common 2.7.18-5 all > Puppet master common scripts > ii vim-puppet 2.7.18-5 all > syntax highlighting for puppet manifests in vim > > # top | head -n7 > top - 05:51:16 up 16:45, 2 users, load average: 1.00, 0.99, 0.87 > Tasks: 101 total, 2 running, 99 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > %Cpu(s): 6.1 us, 0.1 sy, 0.0 ni, 93.8 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, > 0.0 st > KiB Mem: 6117052 total, 5807676 used, 309376 free, 69100 buffers > KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 used, 0 free, 2348596 cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > # top | grep -i puppet > 4161 puppet 20 0 *3198m* 3.0g 3256 R 98.6 52.1 183:16.28 puppet > 4161 puppet 20 0 *3198m* 3.0g 3256 R 99.8 52.1 183:19.28 puppet > ~# free -h > total used free shared buffers > cached > Mem: 5.8G 5.5G *330M* 0B 67M > 2.2G > -/+ buffers/cache: 3.2G 2.6G > Swap: 0B 0B 0B > > Now let me stop my puppetmaster to show that memory is in fact getting > freed up. > > # /etc/init.d/puppetmaster stop > [ ok ] Stopping puppet master. > # ps aux | grep -i puppet > root 9438 0.0 0.0 7828 892 pts/1 S+ 05:52 0:00 grep -i > puppet > # free -h > total used free shared buffers > cached > Mem: 5.8G 2.5G *3.3G * 0B 67M > 2.2G > -/+ buffers/cache: 193M 5.6G > Swap: 0B 0B 0B > # > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
